The Pink Tron

This week, join Nate, Lauren, Craig, and Brent as we spend a lot of time not immediately getting to the point(s) but ultimately managing to cover the week in Herd Racing (complete with long discussions about bike and wheel choices), a long Around The Horn dissecting the Ladder League (where the lone holdout gets convinced to try it), and end by teasing the Herd Club Championships (coming in about two months! We're way ahead of the game here, folks.) Good luck racing, everyone!

Brent, Craig, and Lauren cover the week's Herd races and then describe our most recent or most epic failures in cycling, on Zwift or otherwise. Come for the race tips, stay to hear how we put bad days on the bike in context.

Brent, Chris, Marjolein, and Sean sit down and chat about the week in Herd Racing and the rollout of pack dynamics 4.1 to the game as a whole.

Chris, Craig, and Sean gather on a Friday night to chat about the week in Herd Racing, how the Glasgow Worlds course compares to the Glasgow Crit circuit, the introduction of pack dynamics 4.1 to HSRL, and Craig's recent return to Zwift racing.

Craig, Jeff, Sean, and Steve gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, put out a call for ladder league signups, and reveal the depths of our bike maintenance foolishness.

Brent, Chris, Sean, and Steve gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, as well as the newly released ZRL schedule. You've all got about 6 weeks until the season starts. Time to start panic training!

Chris, Sean, and Steve gather to talk about the week in Herd Racing, continue the never-ending rant about Zwift needing to be a better "game," and in honor of a great day in American cinema, provide our entries to the Herd Cycling Watch List.

Brent and Sean welcome Dave Roberts to chat about the week in Herd Racing, the exciting Zwift Club Ladder, and Australia's most dangerous animal.

Brent, Jeff, and Sean gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, including a chat about this week's extra long HSRL stage. We finish up chatting about how the Zwift Play controllers/steering might affect racing, in particular TTTs.

Marjolein, Nate, Sean, and Steve catch The Esteemed Councillor Brent in the middle of his work day to chat about the week in Herd Racing, including how this season of HSRL categorization has been going and what the next season might bring, and our first week of multi-effort Climber's Gambits. Finally, we discuss some of the new Zwift releases (Climb Portal and Zwift Racing Score) and what they might mean for the racing experience going forward.

Antoinette, Craig, Lauren, and newcomer Amy cover the week's Herd races in about 30 minutes and then spend more than half of this episode yammering on about the new Zwift Play. Join us and good luck racing!

Brent, Chris, Craig, and Sean get together (with drinks!) to chat about the week in Herd Racing, how the Compound Score sorted fields felt in the first HSRL race, some exciting scoring updates for the upcoming Climbers Gambit series, and our thoughts on how the Zwift Play controllers might impact racing (including a live realization that one of us can't actually fit them to our bike!)

Craig, Sean, and Steve get together to chat about the week in Herd Racing and the way that HSRL will be categorized for the next few weeks. Say hello to the Compound Score!

Brent, Chris, and Sean get together to chat about the week in Herd Racing, as well as what new series are on the horizon from Zwift, including one familiar racing structure that one James Bailey may have nicked from himself.

This week's PT crew of Brent, Chris, Craig, and Lauren have some drinks and discuss all of the week's racing starting with maybe too many laps of Neokyo Crit in HSRL, some upcoming category changes for HBR, and a bit of chatter about Pack Dynamics 4.1.

Brent and Sean get together to talk about the week in Herd racing and the hardest and dumbest things we've done on Zwift

Brent, Matt, and Sean get together to chat about the week in Herd Racing, and discuss why there are so many dang bugs introduced every time there's a Zwift update.

Matt, Sean, and Steve get together to chat about the week in Herd racing, ask for constructive feedback, and discuss the new changes to the racing powerups.

Brent, Chris, and Sean get together to talk the week in Herd racing, fitness cramming for time off, outside plans for the summer, potentially wrecking ourselves in the Chasing series, and whether recent changes to the zFTP algorithms are pushing more riders down a category in Cat Enforcement.

Brent, Chris, Matt, and Sean get together to wrap up the Omnium, chat about the upcoming week in Herd racing, and discuss the Zwift announcement of upcoming features.

Brent, Chris, Craig, Matt, and Sean welcome Marjolein to talk about the week in Herd racing, as well as what we can expect for the Omnium next weekend. Who else is looking forward to an all out TT blast around 1 lap of Glasgow Crit?!

Listen in as Chris, Lauren, L'Rainique, Matt, Taitem, and special guest Marc give an overview of this week's Herd Races with bike choice and race craft tips and then do a grab bag Around the Horn about fair racing in Zwift touching on the expanded roll out of Category Enforcement and retirement of the Zwift Power categories as well as categorization and races based on ZwftiRacing.app.

A full house on PT with Antoinette, Brent, Jeff, Lauren, Matt, and Sean discussing the week in Herd racing with a dash of thoughts on ZRL and a long discussion led by Brent on getting your Zwift hardware working perfectly. If you've ever thought about building a Zwift PC, this episode might tip you in favor of doing so!

Nathan Trachta joins Brent and Matt to talk about the weeks Herd Racing. The group ends with a sneak preview of what we might see in the next big Herd Racing event!

Brent, Matt, Sean, and special guest Brian O'Connor get together to talk about the week in Herd Racing...and we would all like some pizza!

Brent, Lauren, Matt, and Sean gather to chat the week in Herd Racing, as well as the upcoming rounds of the Women's Iceni series put on by The Warrior Games, and the first round of the ZRL Finals. Also, Matt blubbers like a sprinter.

Chris, L'Rainique, Matt, Sean, and Taitem gather to talk the week in Herd racing, how the FRR Grand Tour compares to other dumb challenges Taitem has taken on, the eRacing Worlds, how to win money cycling inside, and stay tuned for a very special announcement.

Matt, Brent, Taitem and a mystery returning host talk about all the week’s Herd races, the UCI E-Cycling Worlds and, of course, what we are drinking.

Brent, Matt, Sean, and Taitem gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, how Wahoo's new Race Mode affects racing, and progress on Pack Dynamics v4

Antoinette, Lauren, and Sean gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, the Herd Racing 101 rides, what race series we might be focusing on with ZRL ending, and first impressions of Scotland.

We talk with Matt de Freitas about his history as an elite runner, introduction to cycling and the Herd, best race ever, and the time his mom attacked his bike with a hammer!

Brent, Chris, and Sean get together to chat about the week in Herd racing, what the new update broke, and the new Scotland courses that you'll be riding on soon.

Brent, Chris, Sean, and Taitem gather to talk about the week in Herd racing as well as what headset/microphone/device combinations we use to connect to Discord

Chris, L'Rainique, Sean, and Taitem gather to talk about the week in Herd racing, and get a good rant in about racing ZRL on, say, nonstandard equipment.

Brent, Lauren, and Sean gather to talk the week in Herd racing, and transition seemlessly into a chat about the ZRL segment battle points.

A skeleton crew of Brent and Lauren go over Herd races for the coming week and then do more than a bit of rambling about 50/50 tickets, broken trainers and buying a new trainer, finishing the Rapha Festive 500, and thanking the whole PT crew for closing out the year with us. Moo and happy almost 2023!

Chris, Jeff, Lauren, and Sean gather to talk the week in herd racing, the festive 500, and our annual Zwishlists

Antoinette, Brent, Chris, Craig, and Sean gather to talk the week in herd racing, sound off on the length of the final ZRL race of the season, and almost incite an international incident.

Craig, Chris, and Sean get together to chat about the week in herd racing, the announcement of the new Scotland courses, and the Zwift initiative to cull the public race calendar, including a discussion of what Herd races might be in trouble.

Alan joined Kees, Chris, and Brent to talk about how Zwift and outdoor riding work together for him, time trials and how he got into Zwift and the Herd!

Antoinette, Brent, and Sean get together to chat about the week in herd racing, and how the Zwift Insider Tiny Races have enhanced rider rankings.

Antoinette, Brent, Craig, Lauren, and Sean gather to discuss the week in herd racing, what's coming up for the remainder of the year in Herd Winter Racing and Herd Beginner Racing, and how/why we do our warmups.

Brent, Chris, Lauren, L'Rainique, Sean, and Taitem gather to talk about the week in herd racing, meet Nigel Bearington, and learn from Brent that doing a recon before racing a new course is never a bad idea.

Craig, Lauren, and Sean get together an chat about the week in Herd racing, including an incredibly spicy HWR, the World ICR racing series, Craig's current shedload of broken bikes, and Sean considers racing cyclocross.

Darren Scott (D HCC Winner), Christine Barr (Mixed B Women's Winner), and James Bailey (Mad Scientist Emeritus) join a gaggle of Pink Tron regulars in an effort to figure out what the heck we all just did last week.

Si Bradeley, lifelong cyclist, former Guinness record holder, and Zwift content creator, joins the crew (Brent, Lauren, Sean, and Taitem) to talk about how to TikTok, tips for riding smart on Zwift, the Underground Race series, the future of Zwift racing, and his Level Velo indoor kit company (https://www.levelvelo.cc/)

Brent, Chris, Craig and first-timer Ben discuss the start of Herd Winter Racing, the insanity of the Herd Club Championship, and throw the new home-brew Zwift racing ranking system at ZwiftRacing.app around the horn

Brent, Chris, Craig, and Sean talk Herd Club Championships, and what comes next: Herd Winter Racing and Herd Beginner Racing

Brent, Chris, Lauren, Sean, and Taitem (who was up until the wee hours) discuss the week in Herd Racing, ZRL for 10/18, the embarrassing noises some of us make when racing (arguably) too hard, unexpected strong odors during Zwift races, and a brief discussion of the Herd Club Championship race we are most looking forward to.

Antoinette, Chris, Craig, and Sean gather to talk about the week in Herd Racing, the upcoming Herd Club Championships, and the potentially imminently ban-able Sauce for Zwift